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Investigations continue into Monday s central North Island power cut
11 May, 2021 12:55 AM
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A cause for Monday s power cut, where more than 4000 properties were without power, is yet to be determined. Photo / Bevan Conley
A cause for Monday s power cut, where more than 4000 properties were without power, is yet to be determined. Photo / Bevan Conley
Whanganui Chronicle
Transpower is undertaking further investigations into Monday s power outage across the central North Island.
More than 4000 properties in Raetihi, Taihape, Ohakune, National Park and Ongarue lost power due to a fault around 9am.
Transpower spokesman Geoff Wishart said there was a tripping (fault) on a 110,000 volt line feeding areas between Ongarue in the north and Taihape in the south.
UN is failing the Uighurs in China
published : 7 May 2021 at 04:00
34 In file photo dated October 1 last year, Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China, in Istanbul. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Of the 11 million Uighur Muslims living in China s northwestern region of Xinjiang, up to two million of them, including ethnic Uzbeks and Kazakhs have been detained inside camps, while those remaining on the outside facing a crackdown for a number of years. Human rights organizations and many foreign governments have described the many human rights abuses inflicted on the Uighur people as genocide.
A recent report by a US think tank New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy claimed the Chinese government has violated the 1948 United Nations Convention for the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, with its campaign of internment, forced sterilisation, family separation, the killing of Uighur leaders